IRAN: PRISONER HANGED IN URMIA OVER DRUG CHARGES

13 December 2018 :

According to the IHR sources, Younes Azizi was hanged on 10 December 2018 at Urmia Central Prison. He was sentenced to death for drug offenses. “Younes was sentenced to death for possessing 100 kilograms of morphine. His case was sent for the revision under the new anti-narcotic law, but the verdict was upheld because he had three other drug-related sentences,” the source told IHR. Younes Azizi was transferred to solitary confinement a day before the execution.

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